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laidback

laidback is the alternative form of laid-back.

Meaning of laid-back

Adjective

laid-back (comparative more laid-back, superlative most laid-back)

  1. Relaxed and easy‐going; demonstrating an absence of stress or worry.
    • This hit‐writer of the early 60s came out with a highly contemporary style which fitted the fashionable term ‘laid‐back’, and her Tapestry album zoomed up to become one of the three biggest‐selling LPs of all time.1973 July 28, Melody Maker, page 36, column 2

Forms of laidback

comparativemore laidback
superlativemost laidback

Words formed from laidback

Questions about laidback

What is laidback the alternative form of?
Laidback is the alternative form of laid-back.

Words near laidback in the dictionary

  1. laid up in lavender
  2. laid up with
  3. laid waste
  4. laid-back
  5. laid-off
  6. laidback
  7. laidbackness
  8. laide
  9. laidest
  10. Laidlaw
  11. Laidlaws

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laidback (page history and authors); laid-back (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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